How-to guides and templates

These guides include guidelines and examples of how to carry out cost analysis for education and development programs. The templates below can be used to do this analysis and can be customized to the needs of your organization.

A tool to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness of US or international education programs, designed for researchers, analysts, educational administrators, and policymakers, based on the "ingredients" method developed by Lewin and McEwan.

Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education at Columbia Teacher's College